The Fujifilm Finepix is an entry-level digital camera and at around 22 millimetres wide, is able to slip into most pockets and purses. This is a sixteen megapixel device which comes with all of the usual features used in cameras at this price range, which is at the lower end of the market. These features include:
A 3X Fuginon zoom and digital stabilisation system to compensate for blur caused by hand movement when taking a picture. Because this camera is aimed at the novice there is a totally automatic light sensor which will decide for you whether or not to use flash to get the best exposure.
The Motion panorama mode enables the user to take excellent landscape shots, and in this mode you are allowed to stitch together three photos to create a wide Panoramic effect which is ideal for big landscape shots or large groups of people.
Another excellent feature of this camera is face detection, and automatic red-eye removal. In this mode, the camera makes sure that its settings are automatically set to get the best shots of people, and will optimise the focus to remove those nasty shadows, blurs and red eyes as you are shooting.
One more intuitive feature is the Scene Recognition Auto which will decide before you shoot a scene, what type of exposure you need to get perfect results.
As with most cameras in this price range, there is also a movie function, and movies can be downloaded onto computer and transferred to DVD.
A surprising feature of this camera is that it is powered by AA batteries which is definitely going against the industry norm. The advantage of these batteries is that you can buy them virtually anywhere, but the downside is that you will always need to spend money buying batteries unless you choose to buy some rechargeable ones.
The camera is sold without a memory card and is unusable until you buy one, which again puts the price up. There is no connection for using mains power to preserve the settings, so when the batteries need to be replaced, time, date and other information is lost and has to be re-entered.
It is definitely true that you get what you pay for in the digital world, but the picture quality is not that good in spite of the automatic features to help the photographer; this is rather surprising for a camera that has 16 Megapixels.
Marks out of 10? Well, this is not a bad little starter camera, so a good 6.
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